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Aeg / 25 / they/them / DFW Metroplex, TexasPhotos are my own.
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Six-spotted Tiger Beetle, Cicindela sexguttata! I was so psyched that I managed to nab this individual. They're blindingly fast (literally - they can run so fast they go temporarily blind)! Seen in central Illinois on 5/19/2024.
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Texas Leafcutter Ants (Atta texana) doin their thing.
#ecology#video#insect#ants#hymenoptera#formicidae#god taking good photos and videos of these guys is SO hard#neither my camera nor my phone did them any justice
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A chart I made a while back showing the difference between the 3 black-and-ivory coloured Yellowjacket species we have here in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Left: Vespula consobrina (BlackJacket)
Middle: Dolichovespula arctica (Parasitic Aerial Yellowjacket)
Right: Dolichovespula maculata (Bald-Faced Aerial Yellowjacket)
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Assorted, un-cropped woodpecker photos from W.G. Jones State Forest, Texas (Red-headed woodpecker, female Red-cockaded woodpecker, male Red-bellied woodpecker)
#ecology#my photos#photography#bird photography#birds#woodpecker#red-cockaded woodpeckers make me so sad to think about :( i wish they weren't endangered
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Ebony Jewelwing / Calopterygidae / Calopteryx maculata
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Northern Cardinal ♂ / Cardinalidae / Cardinalis cardinalis
#ecology#my photos#photography#birds#bird photography#cardinal#northern cardinal#putting the family name feels weird with birds but oh well#and funny enough despite being extremely common here in Texas most of my cardinal photos are ass.
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Best feeling in the world: spotting tiny caddisfly cases in woody debris. This one was attached to a rhizome and was very well camouflaged.
Leptoceridae / Oecetis sp.
#ecology#my photos#insect#trichoptera#microscopy#microscope#leptoceridae#caddisfly#originally wrote 'very tiny' caddisfly but let's be real i can't bitch THAT much unless i'm looking for hydroptilids
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Assorted damselflies as I was fucking around with my very cheap photography setup in a stream. Coenagrionidae & Calopterygidae, Argia sedula & Hetaerina americana
#ecology#my photos#insect#photography#odonata#damselfly#coenagrionidae#calopterygidae#oh. maybe i should have tagged the last one as zygoptera#surely people check the suborder tags right??#shit. maybe I should have done that with all of my flies too
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American Rubyspots, ♂, ♀ and ♂ / Calopterygidae / Hetaerina americana
#ecology#my photos#insect#photography#odonata#damselfly#calopterygidae#desperately want to tag this as dragonfly but. i know. i shouldnt#also we are entering my 'actually using a camera instead of my phone and macro lens' era
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I didn't really start collecting ostracods until around spring 2023, so here is about one year's worth of ostracods fully sorted and safe inside double vials.
Every vial has a handwritten label with the town, the US county, the date, and a code number corresponding to lat and long coordinates for the location (I have something like 300 positives). I did this by myself for some reason and out of my 21 year old car, mostly on weekends and lunch breaks.
Time to look for more ostracods 👍
#ref#I've never thought of doing a double vial oh my god#what are ur handwritten labels? just pencil on lined paper?
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Fungus Blast from last November
I'm not great at identifying fungi, especially because I live in such a dry area. The third image is Lycoperdon, fourth is Trametes, fifth is either Trametes or Stereum (I didn't photograph the underside! Oops!), last image is one of the few species I can reliably ID in the field to species, Hairy Hexagonia (Hexagonia hydnoides)
#ecology#my photos#photography#fungi#fungus#mushrooms#lichen#I don't like eating mushrooms but the puffballs always look so tasty
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Oblique Streaktails, ♀ and ♂ / Syrphidae / Allograpta obliqua
#ecology#my photos#photography#insect#diptera#flies#syrphidae#I love photographing syrphids even the most common species are so pretty
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Evergreen Bagworm Moth ♂ / Psychidae / Thyridopteryx ephemeraeformis
#ecology#my photos#photography#i feel bad tagging this as photography bc everything abt this is ass but oh well. bagworm moth be upon ye#lepidoptera#psychidae#bagworm#moth
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Gulf Fritillary / Nymphalidae / Dione vanillae
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Macleay's Owlfly / Myrmeleontidae / Ululodes macleayanus
#ecology#my photos#photography#insect#neuroptera#owlfly#myrmeleontidae#ascalaphinae#this one was an all time fav of mine. love owlflies and I wanted to see one so bad#still on the hunt for a four-spotted owlfly!#I think this one was the second of the night
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This is how you get blocked. I am very passionate about my love of hated species and very petty about online bug vitriol.
Reasons mosquitoes are good:
Mosquitoes pollinate
Mosquitoes can repopulate and restore dead wetland because their larvae don't need oxygenated water. A mosquito boom is step #1 in restoring wetland
Mosquitoes drive caribou migrations and prevent overgrazing and overpopulation
Mosquitoes are an unbelievably important food source for birds, bats, and predatory insects like dragonflies and diving beetles
Mosquitoes are able to feed on megafauna (like deer), and can move nutrients from the top of the food chain down to the bottom of the food chain without killing megafauna. Mosquitoes allow birds and bats to eat deer, and no deer has to die in the process
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